He Knew Too: Do You?

This is just a mini-blog post to share something I found in Jeff and Julie Crabtree’s book Living with a Creative Mind.

As artists, as creative people, as actors, we feel both a desire to comment on life (outside) but we also need our comments to be accepted or validates (inside).

Jeff and Julie say we inhabit a place where we both desire to confront and conform with society. That makes a lot of sense to me, do you sometimes feel like that too? I know I do.

In their book they quote one of my favourite poets, Bukowski, he felt it too. Here’s the extract they quote:

I am not like
other people
other people are like
other people.

they are all alike;
joining
grouping
huddling
they are both
gleeful and content
and I am
burning in hell.

my heart is a thousand years old.

I am not like
other people.

Charles Bukowski

I’m going to chat with Julie on Tuesday, hopefully I will publish some of the chat here next week.